March might be over. But the UFC might have its own Cinderella story Saturday.

When Alexander Gustafsson was forced out of the UFC on Fuel TV 9 main event Tuesday, in stepped his sometimes training partner Ilir Latifi to face Gegard Mousasi in Stockholm, Sweden. Mousasi is more than a 14-to-1 favorite, but UFC star Rashad Evans, who has trained with Latifi, says the Swede “has a really good shot of winning this fight” provided he’s in shape.

Evans says the stocky, 5-foot-8 Latifi is a “really, really good wrestler” who can give Mousasi trouble in the light heavyweight bout.

“Mousasi has trouble with people who have the ability of taking him down repeatedly,” Evans, who is an analyst on Fuel’s pre- and post-fight shows, told The Post. “That really wears on him. When he tries to fight at that wrestler’s pace, he gets tired.”

Latifi hopes so, too. When Gustafsson was cut above his eye last week and eventually ruled unable to fight at Saturday’s event (Fuel TV, 2 p.m. ET), Latifi reached out to the UFC to fill in on short notice. He saw it as a huge opportunity for him to achieve one of his goals – to fight for the largest MMA organization in the world.

Latifi, 29, was actually going to leave Sweden for Brazil in the next few days for a job training fighters before Gustafsson got hurt. Now he’s competing in a UFC main event in his home country.

“When we talk about everything that happened, it feels a little bit like fate because of a lot of circumstances that happened in the last couple of days,” Latifi told The Post.

Wrestling is one of the reasons Latifi was able to overcome a tough upbringing in the south of Sweden, where his family moved from Albania. This is his big chance – he knows he can change his life forever if he beats Mousasi, one of the top 205-pounders around.

“They’ll be talking a lot about this Cinderella story or this Rocky story,” Latifi said. “I’m still very overwhelmed with everything that’s happening. I haven’t really seen it like that. People here are talking about it like that, because people know the area where I’m from. It’s a rough neighborhood. People don’t get a lot of chances to succeed in life.”

Latifi wasn’t 100 percent sure he’d make weight Thursday. He ended up hitting it with little problem, which is remarkable since Monday he was 26 pounds over when he got the call from the UFC.

Cutting all that weight was Latifi’s biggest worry. Now he has nothing to lose.

“Of course I think I can win,” Latifi said. “If I didn’t think I can win, I wouldn’t take the fight.”